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Betancourt.sPubDate = "7/3/2008 1:07:47 AM GMT";
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Betancourt.appHeader = "Facts on Colombian hostages ";
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Betancourt[i-1].body = "Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt, who was running for president, and her vice presidenial candidate, Clara Rojas, were captured while campaigning in 2002.  Rojas gave birth to a boy, Emmanuel, while in captivity at a secret jungle camp.";

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Betancourt[i-1].body = "Three U.S. Defense Department contract workers -- Thomas Howes, Marc Gonsalves and Keith Stansell -- were kidnapped when their aircraft crashed on a counter-narcotics mission in February 2003.";

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Betancourt[i-1].body = "Betancourt and the three Americans were among 44 hostages the rebels wanted exchanged for jailed rebels.  Some have been held for nearly a decade. The government said rebels  hold another 700 hostages.";

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Betancourt[i-1].body = "In late 2007, the army arrested a group of guerrillas as the fighters delivered documents including a video that showed a gaunt Betancourt sitting in the jungle and the three Americans. In a letter to her mother, the politician said she was barely eating and that her hair was falling out.";

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Betancourt[i-1].body = "The FARC began as a Communist peasant army in the 1960s. President Alvaro Uribe pushed the guerillas onto the defensive with a U.S.-backed security campaign, but the group continues to fight, kidnap and traffick cocaine.";

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